宗教的多样性

本课程调查了从史前到现在的“非西方”社会的艺术. Cultures discussed include South and Southeast Asia, 中国和日本, 非洲, and cultures of the Americas (Pre-Conquest and Native American). “非西方”一词传统上是指最初在西方文化领域之外发展起来的文化，与欧洲艺术传统有一定距离. The term is not only excessively broad but also problematic, because it implies an opposition to western art. 我们将探讨这些问题. 本课程的主要目的是为学生提供一个关于所研究文化所产生的艺术的丰富性和多样性的全球视角. 它还考虑了殖民化和全球化对非西方文化艺术作品的处理和新艺术形式的发展的影响.

对影响不同文化和/或种族背景的个人和群体之间意义交换的文化差异的研究. 本课程旨在让学生了解文化的独特性，以及由此产生的沟通方式和偏好的变化, 并为跨越文化障碍的成功沟通提供策略和技巧. 本学期学生将至少花20个小时与社区机构合作，为来自不同文化背景的客户提供服务.

(通常每学期提供.)

本课程旨在帮助学生培养对对话沟通的理论和实践理解. 学生将发展有效参与和促进变革对话所需的技能. 除了发展对当前对话研究的全面理解, 学生将有机会通过帮助NWU和林肯社区团体通过对话解决僵局来练习他们的促进技能.
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing and permission of the instructor.

世界文学主题组的每门课程都将学习一组选定的文学作品，这些作品涉及所选主题——不同体裁的文本, 从历史上看, and from different cultural traditions. 所选的阅读材料将呈现与主题相关的抽象原则及其直接关系, 生活的现实.
Prerequisite(s): Any First Year Writing course.

Fiction and essays by women from various cultures (including the U.S.(欧洲、非洲、拉丁美洲和加勒比地区)将是本课程的重点. 多元文化, 国际 reading list will provide students insight into the lives and experiences of women most likely very different from themselves; thus they can appreciate and learn from the differences and make connections across cultures.
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Prerequisite(s): First Year Writing and sophomore standing.

这是一门主题课程，旨在补充英美文学的传统课程. The emphasis will be on the shock of colonization, 帝国主义的压迫, 以及争取独立的斗争. 我们也会注意个人与天主问题的相遇, 家庭, 爱, 战争, 工作, 改变, 和死亡.
Prerequisite(s): First Year Writing and Sophomore standing.

本课程将给予学生第一手的社会和政治变革经验. Our goal is to understand how ordinary citizens 工作 for social, 经济, and political justice within their communities. 学生们将与一个草根组织一起工作，体验林肯的动员和变化是如何发生的. When the course is offered for 2 credits, 重点将是基层组织的策略，以及如何在学生的体验式学习项目中体现出来. When the course is offered for 4 credits, 还将进一步关注基层组织理论以及美国和全球有影响力的政治活动家所采用的策略.

This course is a study of the cultural settings, lives of founders when appropriate, oral or written traditions and literature, 世界观, 神话, 仪式, 行为准则, and development of some of the 世界's 宗教s. Religions studied will typically include 部落 宗教s, 印度教, 耆那教, 佛教, 道教, 儒家思想, 神道教, 琐罗亚斯德教, 犹太教, 基督教, 伊斯兰教, 锡克教, 和巴哈教徒. 阅读, 视频, 网站不仅有助于介绍和说明这些宗教产生的文化背景, but also the voices and faces of contemporary 宗教 practitioners.
(Normally offered each fall semester.)

This course explores 宗教 responses to social justice issues, 比如冲突, 贫困, 压迫,歧视, 还有环境. Particular focus is lent to the distribution of resources, 性别和种族歧视, 战争 and other forms of violent behavior and the 历史, 哲学, 宗教, 经济, 其中的文化影响. 本课程还将展示正义的理论和实施所具有的一些含义，这些含义可能有助于围绕特定问题制定公共政策和社会正义行动.

This course will examine the roles and views of women in 宗教 traditions. Students will encounter scholarship on gender, 宗教, and feminist theology in different traditions. The primary focus of this course will be on the 宗教 traditions of 犹太教, 基督教, 和伊斯兰教, although other traditions and contemporary 宗教 movements may be considered.
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(通常每年提供.)

美国的宗教.S. is vital and diverse and its study illuminates not only early American society, but also the current pluralism within our contemporary culture. This course will introduce 宗教 traditions in the U.S. through thematic, 历史, denominational, and cultural considerations. 虽然美国的清教徒根源.S. 宗教 history will be considered, this course emphasizes the variety and diversity of 宗教 experiences in the U.S., 包括印第安人, 新教, 天主教, 非裔美国人, 犹太人, 伊斯兰教, 印度教, 和佛教传统.
(通常每年提供.)

本课程探讨了这种形成, differences and conflicts among and between 犹太教, 基督教, 和伊斯兰教 through comparative themes.

This course explores a 宗教ly diverse range of end of time stories. 古代和现代, 口头及书面, 世界末日的场景可以作为对现状的道德和政治批评, 文学, by, 对于被边缘化的人, 并提供其他选择, 宇宙的正义或未来的更新. 研究了所有的宗教, 包括部落, 世界 宗教s as well as movements that prioritize ethnicity, 比赛, 和反殖民主义是国际性的，但将在当代北美表达的背景下进行审查.
(通常每年提供.)

本课程允许学生参加实习，以补充他们的学术课程, 探索职业选择, and professionalizing their approach to career choices. Students might intern as a volunteer in a non-profit organization, as a research or field case study assistant, or in formal or informal ministry or in other relevant areas. F P /只.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department chair.

The course explores the modern construction of 宗教 and 宗教s as a legal, 国际, 历史, 文化范畴. 我们将研究哪些定义和假设在起作用，以及谁发明了宗教传统, 维护, 或者为了什么而改变. 被审问的分类包括宗教的、精神的和世俗的、学术的和民间的. 研究的材料和运动包括有意挑衅性的古代并置, 新, 部落, 世界, 本地化与国际化. 在当代话语中，赋予个人选择或创造宗教身份的自由是很常见的, 因此, 本课程将特别关注灵性如何模糊了个人主义意识形态通过消费者和生活方式选择使自我认同创造合法化的程度.

监督学生在与导师协商后选择的主题上的个人项目. Special Projects may not duplicate courses described in the catalog.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor.

See SOC 2330 Race Relations and Minority Groups.